You are listening to a Clark's World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clark's World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

This is our third story for the month of October,

2019, Issue 157. As always, thank you for your generous support for this magazine.

Whether you are a patron over at Patreon.com

forward slash Clark'sworld, or visit us at Clark's World Citizens.com, we thank you for your support.

Our third story is titled An Arc of Lightning Across the Eye of God,

and is by P. H. Lee.

P. H. Lee lives with the rose bushes behind an old walnut tree

down a dead end road out past the highway. Their other writing has appeared in Uncanny magazine,

Fisions magazine, Worlds Without Master, and Four Ways to die in the future.

Their hobbies include cooking and translating

classical Chinese texts.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back. Relax.

And let me tell you a story.

Jo, Wen Schu was the young magistrate of Shenkong Bienn, and he was feeling every inch of that appointment.

Today he had learned that the plastic floor of his office, the largest personal

room in Shenkong Bien, was exactly four and a half steps.

It was the least interesting thing that he had learned today, and he'd learned it by pacing

back and forth at Yin-Shi, outpost time. Weh-Shi capital time, when he should have been in bed.

One, two, three, four, five, and turn,

one, two, three, four, and turn again.

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